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CHEGK RECEIVER. No. 353,051. Patented Nov. 23, 1886.

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JOHN CASEY, OF J ERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

H ECK-RECEYIVER.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 853,051, dated November 23, 1886.

Serial No. 178,150. (No model.)

in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section and parts being broken away, of one of my improved Gll6Cl -1GC0lV8IS. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of a part of the same, taken through the line 00 m, Fig. 1.

The object of this invention is to improve the construction of the check-receivers for which Letters Patent Nos. 204,004 and 235,740 were granted to me May 21, 1878, andDeceinber 21, 1 880, respectively, in such a manner as to make them more convenient and reliable in use,simpler in construction, and less expensive in manui'aeurc.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of various parts of the cheekreceiver, as will be hereinafter fully described and then claimed.

A represents the base of the check-receiver, which is made in the form of an inverted bowl, and has a slot in its top to receive the fiat tube B. The middle parts of the sides of the flat tube B are cut away, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to displaythe checks while in the said tube.

The tube B is provided with a cap, 0, which is made with a slot corresponding in shape and size with the opening in the upper end of the flat tube B, so that the checks can be readily passed through the said slot into the said tube.

The cap 0 is secured to the flat tubeB by rods D, secured at their upper ends to the said cap, passing through channels in the edgesof the said tube, and having nuts E screwed upon their lower ends in recesses in the lower parts of the said edges.

The flat tube B is incloscd in a glass tube, F, interposed between the said cap 0 and the top of the base A.

Upon the flat tube B, near its lower end, are

formed flanges G, to receive the screws H, that secure the said tube to the base A.

In one edge of thelower end of the flat tube B is formed a slot to receive the shank of a weight, I, which is pivoted to the said tube bya bolt, J. The shank of the weight I inclines inward, and its end is concaved, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the said concave being so formed that when the weight I hangs free a check passing down through the tube B will pass the upper angle of the said end and rest upon the lower angle, as shown in Fig. l.

The gravity of the weight I should be sufficient to support all the checks that can be placed in the tube B. i

WVith this construction, when the tube B is full of checks and another check is forced into the upper end of the said tube with sufficient force to cause the downward pressure of the lowest check upon thelowerangleofthe weightshank to swing the said weight outward, the said lowest check will pass the said lower angle and drop out ofth'e tube. The outward movement of the weight I swings the upper angle of the weight-shank inward, so as to receive the next lowest check and supportthe checks until the return of said weight to its normal position allows the said check to descend to and rest upon the lower angle of the said shank, ready to be dropped in turn, so that one check will always be discharged from the lower end of the tube B as a check is forced into the upper end of the said tube. The other edge of the lower end of the fiat tube B is slotted to receive the shank of the weight K, which is pivoted to the said tube by abolt, L. The weight K is so formed as to swing into a recess in the lower corner of the tube B so far that it will be struck and pushed back by the check as it is passing out of the said tube B.

To the weight K is attached, or with it is connected, abell-haniiner, M, whiclnas the said weight K is moved by the discharge of a check, is swung against a belhN, and thus gives notice.that a check has been discharged. The bell N can be attached to a support formed upon orattached to any convenient part of the base A. Openings are formed in the lower part of the base A, to allow the alarm given by the bell to be readily heard.

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Upon the base A are formed lugs O, to receive screws P, for securing the said base to a counter or other support, beneath which is placed a locked receptacle for the checks.

.The tubes B F can be made of such a length as maybe most convenient for the place where the check-receiver is to be used. In the drawings the tubes B F are shown as holding seven checks, six of which are exposed to View.

The checks can be made of metal, celluloid, or other suitable material, should have the sum they represent marked plainly upon them, and may be made of different colors, so that each salesman or each department of the busi ness can have distinctive checks.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a check-receiver, the combination,with

projecting end of its shank concaved and arranged in the lower end of the tube, and the additional pivoted weight, also disposed in the lower end of the tube and having the bellhaminer, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN CASEY. \Vitnesses:

Jiurns T. GRAHAM, EDGAR TATE. 

